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Haven't heard from quite a few people. Feyras messaged me not too long ago but other than that, no one =( lol

Eh? O.o

@Noc: Aww, did you get left all alone in your guild? =/

Oh I see. I thought you were still there.

Yeah glad I keep my identity sealed here on WoW. Stalkers of any kind freak me out! I think that is the parental side of me though... Have fun stalking Pigtails! :D

I think Lillitha was telling me to have fun stalking you lol

I MAYBE have been able to come on after work or when I have the chance outside of classwork. Other than that, I don't have time. Too busy trying to physically and mentally prepare myself for the physical abilities test for the local PD

Trying at least! I want to eventually get into their homicide division to get into investigations as that's what I ultimately want to do for a living. Tried the test once already but the dummy drag killed me. I'm hoping it'll be a bit easier this time now that I know what to expect and have been trying to build up my upper body strength a bit more =)

And I agree. We have way too many idiotic officers out there unfortunately. A lot of those cops are the ones that "sit on their high horse" types. Kind of sad.

re: Dummy Drag

Remember not to stand rigidly upright, but lean back a little while you're pulling. That way the weight will rest more on your chest and not on your arms and shoulders. It's what I try to tell the younger, smaller females during instruction to help them, though it is still helpful to pretty much everyone.

lol

Thanks for the tip lolgaxe! Yeah, I can pretty much do that. Just a lot of strain on the arms. Wish I could carry him on my back though (with me being short as well, he'd still be touching the ground lol), as I have no issues carrying heavy stuff on my back. Gave my fiancee a piggyback ride around the living room just to see if I could carry him lol (and no... not that type of piggyback ride ><).

Do women get certain benefits when applying? Over here, if a woman applies for the academy she's practically guaranteed to get in. It's almost as bad as when someone of Middle-eastern skin tone applies. Those guys get a personal coach and a "become a police officer for free" card.

You can tell I'm not bitter that I didn't get in, right?

It was actually a blessing in disguise. You get a six-month quarantine or suspension from applying if you fail the test, so I decided to apply for teacher education in the meantime and found that I liked it a lot.

Better work hours and pay as well. Especially the work hours. No work on holidays, no graveyard shifts and no overtime because of some hippies protesting.

Your teachers make more money than your police? Not positive, but I think it's the opposite here, and you don't even need a college education to be a cop.

Really depends on where you are, it "Seems" around here that you can't decide to run a hotel without a college education in hotel and resort management... what happened to deciding you wanted to do something and figuring out what you needed to achieve it without a $20K plus education paper.

Not necessarily. Granted, women and minority races do get a minor leg up over, say a white male, just because of the equality within the department and the "no discrimination" policy that a majority of departments have in place. Let's face it, over here, a majority of the police officers are white males.

Not sure if they have a quota that is needing to be met with having a certain number of minority officers though (wouldn't surprise me if they do). Being a female does help though (so I guess what I previously said isn't entirely true and there is benefit from it). When they were putting me into the system, they didn't have a "Mixed" option in regards to race. I had to choose to be either caucasian or asian. So naturally, I had them put down asian, since it is the minority.

We don't get a become an officer for free card as we still have to work for it, but it doesn't hurt.